The 9th IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2011) will be held in Lugano, Switzerland next 14-16 September 2011. Visit the website.

Welcome

The European Conference
on Web Services (ECOWS) is the premier conference for both
researchers and practitioners to exchange the latest advances in the
state of the art and practices of Web Services. The main objectives of
this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and
practitioners and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond.

The success encountered by the Web has shown that tightly coupled
software systems are only good for niche markets, whereas loosely
coupled software systems can be more flexible, more adaptive and often
more appropriate in practice. Loose coupling makes it easier for a
given system to interact with other systems, possibly legacy systems
that share very little with it.

Web services are at the crossing of distributed computing and loosely
coupled systems. When applications adopt service-oriented
architectures, they can evolve during their lifespan more easily and
better adapt to changing or unpredictable environments. When properly
implemented, services can be discovered and invoked dynamically using
non-proprietary mechanisms, while each service can still be implemented
in a black-box manner. This is important from a business perspective
since each service can be implemented using any technology,
independently of the others. What matters is that everybody agrees on
the integration technology, and there is a consensus about this in
today’s middleware market: customers want to use Web
technologies. Despite these promises, however, service integrators,
developers, and providers need to create methods tools and techniques
to support cost-effective development and the use of dependable
services and service-oriented applications.